CVE-2020-10701
Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.2%
top 52.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 27
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout. This flaw allows read-only connections to adjust the time that libvirt waits for the QEMU guest agent to respond to agent commands. Depending on the timeout value that is set, this flaw can make guest agent commands fail because the agent cannot respond in time. Unprivileged users with a read-only connection could abuse this flaw to set the response timeout for all guest agent mess…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-rhq9-pr9r-9x2j: A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout↗2022-05-24
OSV▶
CVE-2020-10701: A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout↗2021-05-27
CVEList▶
CVE-2020-10701: A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout↗2021-05-27
📋Vendor Advisories
3Microsoft▶
A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changing the QEMU agent response timeout. This flaw allows read-only connections to adjust the time that libvirt waits for the↗2021-05-11
Debian▶
CVE-2020-10701: libvirt - A missing authorization flaw was found in the libvirt API responsible for changi...↗2020
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2020-10701 libvirt: guest agent timeout can be set under read-only mode leading to DoS↗2020-03-31